Multi award-winning novelist Ann Patchett will be discussing The Dutch House. A dark modern fairytale set against the very real world of post-WWII Philadelphia, tracing the love between a brother and sister, their vanishing mother, distant father and jealous stepmother. Ann Patchett tells the story of a family over five decades with a finely balanced mixture of wit and heartbreak. (Image: Ann Patchett. Photo credit: Emily Dorio.)
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Hello, this is the BBC World Service.
I'm Harriet Gilbert.
Welcome to World Book Club.
This month we've been reading a family drama, a story of love, hatred, jealousy, vengeance and possible forgiveness spread over five decades.
It's called the Dutch House.
It's an international bestseller.
It's been translated into 35 languages.
And here to answer questions about it from BBC listeners around the world is its American author, Ann Patchett.
Ann, welcome to World Book Club.
Thank you.
I'm glad to be here.
Well, we're very glad to have you.
And you're speaking to us from Nashville, Tennessee, where I think you live.
Yes.
You've also got a bookshop there.
You own a bookshop?
I do.